Executive Producer: Itamar Kubovy Artistic Directors: Robby Barnett and Michael Tracy Associate Artistic Directors: Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent Dancers: Shawn Fitzgerald, Ahern Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Krystal Butler, Mike Tyus, Derion Loman, Jordan Kriston, Benjamin Coalter Captain: Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern Dancer Apprentices: Sayer Mansfield, Teo Spencer Production Manager: Kristin Helfrich Production Stage Manager: Shelby Sonnenberg Lighting Supervisor: Mike Faba Video Technician: Molly Schleicher Éminence Grise: Neil Peter Jampolis Stage Ops: Eric Taylor Co-Executive Director, Development: Lily Binns Co-Executive Director, Sales & Touring: Karen Feys Director of Finance & Administration: Rachel McBeth Director of Production: Shane Mongar Senior Company Manager: Kirsten Leon Artistic Associate: Jun Kuribayashi Education Coordinator: Emily Kent Community Engagement Manager: Ariana Hellerman Development Associate: Ally Duffey Producing Assistant: Diana Gonzalez Production Interns: Chase Trumbull and Michael Depp-Hutchinson US Touring: IMG Artists Tel: 212.994.3500, Fax: 212.994.3550 Web: www.imgartists.com International Sales and Commercial Work: Karen Feys E-mail: [email protected] US: +1.860.717.0517, UK: +44.207.193.9877 General inquiries: Tel: +1.860.868.0538, E-mail: [email protected] Visit our website: www.pilobolus.org

Pilobolus’s 2015 new works are supported by major awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and from the American Dance Festival with support form the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Dance. The remounting of Sweet Purgatory is supported by The Dau Family Foundation. Major support is also provided by The Diebold Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Goldman Sachs Gives at the direction of Annie Hubbard and Harvey Schwartz, SHS Foundation, The Tiger Baron Foundation, and the Xerox Foundation.

Performance: 156 minutes including intermission

Welcome Created by Bo Gehring and Pilobolus Directed by Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent Additional Art Direction by Gregory Laffey Music by Mad Manoush

Sweet Purgatory (1991) Choreographed by Robby Barnett, Alison Chase, Jonathan Wolken, and Michael Tracy in collaboration with Adam Battelstein, Rebecca Jung, Kent Lindemer, Vernon Scott, John-Mario Sevilla, and Jude Woodcock Performed by Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Krystal Butler, Benjamin Coalter, Jordan Kriston, Derion Loman, and Mike Tyus Music by Chamber Symphony, Opus 110a, by Dimitri Shostakovich, orchestral arrangement by Rudolf Barshai Costume Design by Lawrence Casey Costume Painting Executed by Martin Izquierdo Studios Costume Construction Kitty Daly Lighting Stephen Strawbridge Sweet Purgatory was commissioned by ADF with funds from Brenda and Keith Brodie and Steve and Ruth Wainwright. Take 13 Created by Bo Gehring and Pilobolus Directed by Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent Additional Art Direction by Gregory Laffey Music performed by Cubus, Adagio in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach

Wednesday Morning, 11:45 (Premiere) Created by Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent, and Itamar Kubovy in collaboration with Jun Kuribayashi, Sayer Mansfield, and Teo Spencer Performed by Sayer Mansfield and Teo Spencer Art Director Gregory Laffey Music Alex Dezen Lighting Designer Mike Faba Wednesday Morning, 11:45 was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Dance, and by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art. Take 4 Created by Bo Gehring and Pilobolus Directed by Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent Additional Art Direction by Gregory Laffey Music by The National Thresh|Hold (Premiere) Created by Javier de Frutos, Renée Jaworski and Matt Kent in collaboration with Robby Barnett, Itamar Kubovy, Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Krystal Butler, Benjamin Coalter, Jordan Kriston, Derion Loman, Sayer Mansfield, Daniel O’Neill, Teo Spencer, and Mike Tyus Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Benjamin Coalter, Jordan Kriston, Derion Loman, and Mike Tyus Original Music and Sound Design David Van Tieghem Incorporating Casta Diva from Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini Costume Design Sarah Laux Lighting Design Russell Champa Scenic Design Neil Patel Thresh|Hold was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Dance, and by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.

Intermission

Day Two (1980) Directed by Moses Pendleton Choreographed by Daniel Ezralow, Robert Faust, Jamey Hampton, Carol Parker, Moses Pendleton, Peter Pucci, Cynthia Quinn, and Michael Tracy Performed by Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Antoine Banks-Sullivan, Krystal Butler, Benjamin Coalter, Jordan Kriston, and Derion Loman Music Brian Eno, David Byrne and the Talking Heads Lighting Neil Peter Jampolis based on a concept by David M. Chapman Commissioned by Peter, Ginevra, and Helen. Pilobolus teamed up with artist Bo Ghering (first prize winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition) and brought his intimate video portraits, usually of one or sometimes two subjects, into a group setting to create the videos on tonight’s program.

About Pilobolus Pilobolus—named after a barnyard fungus that propels its spores with extraordinary speed, accuracy, and strength—is a dance company founded by a group of Dartmouth College students in 1971. Pilobolus continually forms diverse collaborations that break down barriers between disciplines and challenge the way we think about dance. Physically and intellectually, the company engages and inspires audiences around the world through performance, education, and consultation. Pilobolus propels itself in a variety of directions to reach these goals. The original company Pilobolus Dance Theater has been touring its 118 pieces of repertory to more than 64 countries over the last 43 years. Pilobolus’s Shadowland, the company’s evening-length show currently touring Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, has been seen by more than 750,000 people in the five years since it was created. Pilobolus’s collaborative creative and educational research and development takes place through the Pilobolus Lab, in which the company invites diverse collaborators into residencies to create new work and develop methods to teach Pilobolus’s creative process to individuals and institutions. To date, the Pilobolus Lab has produced collaborations with Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen, Penn & Teller, the MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Art Spiegelman, Maurice Sendak, OK Go, Radiolab, and many others. Pilobolus’s educational programming—which applies the company’s unique collaborative process to help all kinds of groups communicate and work better together—includes workshops, master classes, residencies, children’s programming, and consulting. Educational partners include the Harlem Children’s Zone, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the American Dance Festival, and NYC and CT public schools. Pilobolus Creative Services applies this same method of invention to business, offering a wide range of educational, directorial, design, and movement services for film, advertising, publishing, and custom events. The company has collaborated with clients such as Avon, Boston Consulting Group, Wharton Business School, Google, the US Olympic committee, the NFL Network, Pfizer, and many others. Pilobolus has been featured across the world at the 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007), and on Oprah, 60 Minutes, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Sesame Street. It has been recognized with prestigious honors such as the Berlin Critic’s Prize, the Scotsman Award, the Brandeis Award, the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Programming, the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in , and a TED Fellowship for presenting at the TED conference in 2005. Pilobolus holds the 2011 Guinness World Record for fitting the most people into a Mini Cooper (26). In 2012, the company was nominated for a Grammy® Award for its interactive music video collaboration with the rock band OK Go and Google Chrome Japan, All is Not Lost (www.allisnotlo.st). Recently, Pilobolus was honored as the first collective to receive the Dance Magazine Award, which recognizes artists who have made lasting contributions to the field. Want more Pilobolus? Join us at our home studio in Washington in the summer for weeklong creative movement workshops for adults, teens, and kids. We love having participants with no experience in dance! Our founders had no experience in dance! Check our website pilobolus.org for more information or write Education Coordinator Emily Kent at [email protected]. Who’s Who in the Company Robby Barnett (Artistic Director) was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains and attended Dartmouth College. He joined Pilobolus in 1971. Michael Tracy (Artistic Director) was born in Florence and raised in New England. He met the other Pilobolus founders at Dartmouth in 1969 and became an artistic director after graduating magna cum laude in 1973. Michael toured with Pilobolus for 14 years—for eight as choreographer for a Sports Emmy- nominated teaser created in collaboration with the NFL network; choreographer for a television appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien; andchoreographer and movement for Shakespeare’s The Tempest co-directed by Teller and Aaron Posner. Matt is one of the creators of the Pilobolus’s international hit Shadowland, and has performed in over 24 countries and on Pilobolus’s appearance on the 79th Academy Awards. Outside of Pilobolus, he has worked as choreographer for AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead and as movement consultant on the Duncan Sheik musical Whisper House. Matt lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons. Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern (Dance Captain) grew up in Dublin, NH. He made his dancing debut at age three, enthusiastically jumping around on the living room couch in his tighty-whiteys to the sound of the B-52s. Since then, he has studied in Austria and in the granite state and graduated magna cum laude from Keene State College as a theater and dance major under the mentorship of William Seigh. Shawn owes his passion for movement and for learning to his family, as well as the inspired instructors at KSC and the American Dance Festival. Shawn thanks you for sustaining the arts, and he thanks his family from the bottom of his heart for all of the unending support and love they bring into his life. Shawn joined Pilobolus in 2010. Antoine Banks-Sullivan (Dancer) was born and raised in Chicago, IL. He attended Whitney Young Magnet High School where he began dance training under the instruction of Lisa Johnson- Willingham at the age of 16. He has since trained with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Chicago, Joel Hall, and Central Florida Ballet. Since his first contract with Walt Disney Co., Antoine has danced with Busch Gardens Florida, Cleo Parker Robinson, High School Musical Live, Cirque Dreams, and Las Vegas Theater. In his free time Antoine enjoys cooking, party planning, and traveling the world. He would like to thank his friends and family, especially his loving mother and husband Thomas, for their unending support. After three auditions, Antoine was thrilled to join Pilobolus in 2014. Krystal Butler (Dancer) began her dance training at age 13 at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC, under the direction of Charles Augins. Butler moved to New York City and graduated from Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. She has received scholarships and completed summer programs at the Ailey School, ADF, Earl Mosley Institute for the Arts, and Arke’ Danza. Krystal was a member of INSPIRIT, a dance company and Forces of Nature Dance Theater. She has toured with the theater company, Art Creates Life in Senegal, performing in the play Junkanoo and in Europe in the show MAGNIFICO produced by Andre Heller. She has been a member of Pilobolus Shadowland since 2011 and will now begin her first year with Pilobolus Dance Theater. Benjamin Coalter (Dancer) is from Hurricane, WV. He began his undergraduate work in Engineering and International Affairs at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. During his second year at Marshall, Ben took his first formal dance class. He continued training for the next five months under the direction of Ella Hay, after which he transferred to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, graduating in 2012 with a BFA in Contemporary Dance. Ben can’t thank his parents enough for supporting him in his career change into the arts and putting their trust in God that he would have a job upon graduation. Ben joined Pilobolus in 2012. Jordan Kriston (Dancer) was born in Illinois and grew up in Phoenix, AZ. She earned a BFA in Dance Performance from Arizona State University while performing with Movement Source Dance Company of Phoenix. In 2006, she moved to Brooklyn, NY. During her time in New York, Jordan performed with H.T. Chen and Dian Dong, Douglas Dunn, and Karl Anderson, before joining Pilobolus. She takes pride in making new work with Pilobolus and is grateful to be able to share and teach all over the world. Jordan also enjoys writing, caring for horses, and National Geographic Magazine. She will always be thankful for the family and friends who have helped shape who she is and encouraged her along the way. Jordan joined Pilobolus in 2010. Derion Loman (Dancer) was born in Fairfield, CA. His interest in dance came from his involvement in color guard, where he toured with the World Championship Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps. Derion started dancing his sophomore year of college and graduated in 2012 with a BA in Psychology and a BFA in Dance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Most recently, he was a pioneer member of BHdos, Ballet Hispanico’s second company, where he performed at a variety of events and venues including Symphony Space Theatre, The FBI, and the presidential inauguration. Derion would like to thank his colleagues, mentors, friends, family, and you-the audience-for allowing him to cultivate and share his artistry. This is his firstseason with Pilobolus. Mike Tyus (Dancer) grew up in Los Angeles and started training in jazz and ballet at the age of 12. He began performing professionally three years later and fell in love with the power of live art. He was given the opportunity to share his passion touring the world with dance theater company Urban Poets and the Montreal based circus company Cirque Du Soleil. Mike joined Pilobolus in 2013. Sayer Mansfield (Apprentice) grew up north of Boston, MA, and received her classical training with the Royal Academy of Dance, Boston Ballet, and Joffery Ballet Schools. Sayer began her training in high school at Phillips Academy Andover, working and performing with the Mark Morris Dance Group and the José Limón Dance Company. Upon graduation, she moved to London to study at the Laban Conservatoire for Dance and also studied in Austria at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Sayer graduated May of 2014 with her BFA in Dance from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and has been a member of the Indah Walsh Dance Company since 2012. Sayer is thrilled to join Pilobolus as their first female apprentice. Teo Spencer (Apprentice) is a Vermont native. He studied at the University of San Martin in Argentina, where he specialized in aerial fabric. After completing his studies, Teo performed with Fuerza Bruta and Prix Dami. His credits include a performance for the presidency of Argentina and the award of best overall performance at the Denver Aerial Arts Festival. Teo returned to North America with a passion for combining circus and dance and is excited to be this year’s male apprentice for Pilobolus. Jun Kuribayashi (Artistic Associate) was born in Japan and raised in the US since age five. Before pursuing a career in dance, he was a competitive swimmer and breakdancer and studied various martial arts. At age 22, he began learning dance technique at the University of Kansas, where he earned his BFA. He debuted professionally with MOMIX in 2004 and shortly after joined Pilobolus and toured as a dancer, then dance captain and communications liaison for ten years. He gives special thanks to the dance faculty at KU, families (Kuribayashi and Jones), and friends who have always shown unwavering support, and especially to his wonderful wife, Casey, who always keeps him grounded and level headed. Jun joined Pilobolus in 2004. Shane Mongar (Director of Production) is originally from Chattanooga, TN. Shane joined Pilobolus in 2008. Kristin Helfrich (Production Manager) holds a BA in Lighting Design and Photography from Columbia College in Chicago, IL. She started working for Pilobolus in 2008 as Production Stage Manager. Prior positions include Production Manager for the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, PA, Production Manager and Lighting Supervisor for Deeply Rooted Dance Theater in Chicago, IL, Master Electrician for the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC, and Assistant Lighting Designer and Master Electrician for the National Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in New London, CT. Mike Faba (Lighting Supervisor) is a graduate of the Professional Theater Arts Training Program in Lighting Design at the Seattle Repertory Theater and holds a BA in Drama from Vassar College. He worked as the Production Stage Manager and Lighting Supervisor for the Kate Weare Company and for Radiolab Live: In The Dark, a collaboration between WNYC’s Radiolab and Pilobolus. He was the Lighting Supervisor for Martha Clarke’s Angel Reapers and spent two summers working as the Master Electrician at the American Dance Festival. Mike joined Pilobolus in 2012. Molly Schleicher (Video Technician) holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She spent four summers working in Vacationland at Maine State Music Theatre as a sound engineer. Molly currently resides in New York working as a freelance sound and video engineer. This will be her first season with Pilobolus. Shelby Sonnenberg (Production Stage Manager) was born and raised in Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BFA in Dance in 2012 and completed production apprenticeships at Bates Dance Festival and New York Live Arts in 2013. Shelby joined Pilobolus in 2014 and would like to thank her mom and dad for all their love and support. Eric Taylor (Stage Ops) is from Tennessee, where he still spends his time off from touring working as a rigger and stagehand for area theater productions and corporate events. Eric has enjoyed touring with Pilobolus since 2011. Alison Becker Chase (Choreographer) is a choreographer, director, master teacher, and theatrical artist. Her work explores emotional terrain through innovative movement, multidimensional storytelling, fusions of film and dance, site-specific works, and museum installations. Alison’s instinct for collaboration and education led to a position as Choreographer- In-Residence and Assistant Professor of Dance at Dartmouth College where her ability to teach improvisation and collective creativity transformed an undergraduate class into the origins of Pilobolus Dance Theater. As an Artistic Director of Pilobolus from 1974 to 2006 Ms. Chase pioneered the development of unorthodox partnering techniques, vaulted into unexplored aerial terrain, and built an eclectic repertoire of choreography. With Moses Pendleton, she premiered the company MOMIX in 1980. Ms. Chase founded Alison Chase/Performance in 2009 to pursue her creative vision in bold collaborations with other artists, writers, designers, composers, photographers, filmmakers, dancers, and musicians. Alison and her family live in a close-knit community on the coast of Maine where she and her dancers frequently gather for inspiration and creative development. Javier De Frutos (Creative Collaborator) trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance and the Merce Cunningham School in NYC. In 1994, he established the Javier De Frutos Dance Company and his work has been performed by Rotterdam Dance Group, Ballet Shindowski, Nuremberg Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, The Royal New Zealand Ballet, Candoco, The Royal Ballet, and Gothenburg Ballet. He has received numerous accolades including Olivier Awards nominations for Best Theatre Choreographer, Best New Dance Production, and Best Achievement in Dance, a Time Out Live Award, and a Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Choreography. Javier’s collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys earned him the 2011 Evening Standard Beyond Theatre Award and a nomination from the Critics Circle as Best Choreographer. Recent choreographic credits include From Here to Eternity, National Theatre’s Table, London Road, and Ragtime, and Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe. Moses Pendleton (Choreographer) was born and raised on a farm in northern Vermont. He received his BA in English Literature from Dartmouth College in 1971 and co-founded Pilobolus that same year and was one of its artistic directors until 1990. In addition to his work with Pilobolus, Moses has choreographed and performed for numerous companies throughout the world. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1977. Moses has performed as a soloist in galas throughout Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera House as well as with his own company, MOMIX, which he founded with Alison Chase in 1980. Jonathan Wolken (1949-2010) (Choreographer) co-founded Pilobolus in 1971 and remained one of its Artistic Directors as well as Director of Development until his death on June 13, 2010. Jonathan graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Philosophy. During his career he created 46 works for Pilobolus, in collaboration with its other artistic directors, with guest artists, and as sole choreographer. He also choreographed for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s production of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and created Oneiric, featured in a jointly produced Danish Television feature for members of the Royal Danish Ballet. Over the years he taught many workshops and was dedicated to the furtherance of Pilobolus technique not only in dance but as a model for creative thinking in any field. Alex Dezen (Composer) is the lead singer and songwriter for the American rock band The Damnwells. He is also a multi-platinum selling songwriter. He holds an MFA in English from the University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which he attended from 2008 to 2010. As a songwriter, he has written and released songs for such artists as Justin Bieber, , Court Yard Hounds, Cody Simpson, and others. He has also written for and worked with a number of additional artist such as The Dixie Chicks, , Gary Louris of The Jayhawks, , and many others. A series of four solo EPs, titled The Bedhead EPs, were released throughout 2014. The Damnwells fifth studio album was released on April 14, 2015. David Van Tieghem (Sound Designer) Broadway credits include Doubt, The Lyons, Romeo and Juliet, The Big Knife, Born Yesterday, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, Reckless, An Enemy of the People, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Inherit the Wind, Frozen, After Miss Julie, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Constant Wife, The Crucible, Three Days of Rain, and The Best Man. He has worked Off-Broadway in Wit, The Piano Lesson, Through a Glass Darkly, and How I Learned to Drive and in film and television in Buried Prayers, Working Girls, Penn & Teller, and Wooster Group. In dance he has worked with Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Elizabeth Streb, Elisa Monte, and Michael Moschen. He has performed as a percussionist with Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and Steve Reich. His awards and nominations include Drama Desk, Obie, Bessie, Lortel, and Guggenheim. His CDs are Thrown for a Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, and These Things Happen. Gregory Laffey (Art Director) is a designer and maker from Pittsburgh, PA. He specializes in sets, props, and costumes for dance, theater, and film. Gregory now lives in New York City and has been working on various Pilobolus projects since 2009. Favorites include Shadowland, Radiolab Live: In the Dark, and any that take him out of the country. Lawrence Casey (Costume Designer) designs scenery and costumes for drama, dance, and opera. He has had a long association with the San Francisco Opera, designing costumes for the televised Aida, which starred Margaret Price and Luciano Pavarotti. He has designed costumes for several Crowsnest pieces, and his association with Martha Clarke has resulted in two highly praised pieces: Elizabeth Dead with Linda Hunt and the Obie Award production of Metamorphosis in Miniature with Ms. Hunt and David Rounds. For Pilobolus Mr. Casey has designed costumes for Return to Maria La Baja, Tarleton’s Resurrection, Land’s Edge, Lure, The Golden Bowl, Clandestiny, A Portrait, Sweet Purgatory, Animundi, Collideoscope, The Doubling Cube, and Aeros. Kitty Daly (Costume Designer) has worked with Pilobolus since 1975. A graduate of Cornell University, she designed and built the costumes for Molly’s Not Dead, The Detail of Phoebe Strickland, Bonsai, The Empty Suitor, Moonblind, Lost in Fauna, Mirage, What Grows in Huygen’s Window, Stabat Mater, and Elegy for the Moment, and has collaborated on other Pilobolus designs. Other companies for which Ms. Daly has worked include the Ohio Ballet, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Milwaukee Ballet, Merce Cunningham, Ririe- Woodbury, Crowsnest, and Parker/Pucci. Ms. Daly works in Ellicott City, MD. Sarah Laux (Costume Designer) Recent design credits include Come Back Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre), Women or Nothing (Atlantic Theatre Company), Really, Really (MCC), and Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb). Her Broadway associate credits include The Last Ship, If/ Then, WarHorse (LCT & Tour), Addams Family, Shrek, and Xanadu. Russell H. Champa (Lighting Designer) Current and recent projects include You Got Older (Page 73/HERE), Zealot (South Coast Rep), To The Bone (Cherry Lane), The Qualms (Steppenwolf), and When We Were Young And Unafraid (MTC). His projects on Broadway include In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (Lyceum Theater/Lincoln Center), and Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theater). He has worked in other New York theaters including Lincoln Center, The Public, Second Stage, The Vineyard, New York Stage & Film. Regional: ACT/SF, Old Globe, Wilma, CalShakes, Trinity Rep, Mark Taper Forum, and Kennedy Center. Thanks J + J. Peace. David M. Chapman (Lighting Designer) was Director of Production for Pilobolus from 1978 to 1997. A native of the Berkshires, his early credits include many summers with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and winters on the road with rock, mime, and dance tours. David has designed the lighting for numerous Pilobolus works including Day Two, Bonsai, Particle Zoo, and Axons. Other work includes positions as assistant lighting designer for the 1978 Spoleto Festival USA and Production Manager of the 1981 American Dance Festival. In his most recent New York project, he served as lighting coordinator for the Japanese singer Tokiko at Carnegie Hall. His lighting designs can also be seen in the repertory of Peter Pucci Plus Dancers. He was until May 2006 Director of Production for Jacobs’ Pillow and until 2008 Director of Facilities and Production at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA. Neil Peter Jampolis (Éminence Grise/Lighting Designer) has been lighting Pilobolus since 1975, creating more than 50 new works for the company. He has also had an active career as a set, lighting, and costume designer for Broadway, where he has received four Tony nominations and a Tony Award, and for Off- Broadway, dance, regional theater, and opera, which he also directs. His designs, large and small, have appeared on every continent. His most recent New York outing was lighting the Metropolitan Opera’s Iphigenie en Tauride in November of 2007. In addition, Neil is Professor of Theater at UCLA. Stephen Strawbridge (Lighting Designer) has many works in the repertory of Pilobolus Dance Theater. His designs have been seen on Broadway, off- Broadway and at most major regional theaters and opera houses across the country. Internationally, he has designed the lighting for major premiers in Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Vienna. He has been recognized with numerous awards and nominations including the American Theatre Wing, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum, Helen Hayes, Henry Hewes Design, and Lucille Lortel. He is co-chair of the design department at Yale School of Drama and resident lighting designer for the Yale Repertory Theatre. Neil Patel (Scenic Design) Recent works include the New York premieres of Mr. Burns, Stage Kiss, and Father Comes Home from the Wars and the feature films Some Velvet Morning, Loitering With Intent and Dil Dahdakne Do. Past credits include Side Man on Broadway, West End, and Kennedy Center, [title of show] on Broadway, Dinner with Friends, Bright Sheng’s Madame Mao at the Santa Fe Opera, Amon Miyamoto’s Cosi Fan Tutte in Tokyo (Japanese National Art Festival Award for theatrical production), HBO’s Peabody Award winning In Treatment, and Shadowland for Pilobolus. Awards include an Obie Award for sustained excellence, a Helen Hayes Award, and Henry Hewes and Drama Desk nominations. His design for This Beautiful City was chosen for the 2011 American Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space.